Sharp County record., 1887-10-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Omra Khan recently defeated Abu Bakur,
son of the Abhond Of Swat; that the
a meer had requested the chiefs of neigh
boring tribes to punish the victor, and
that the whole of Bajaur has risen against
Omra,
MAJOR MACFARLAND, the engineer officer
in charge of river and harbOr improve
ments in the vicinity of New York, has
reported to the Secretary Of War that
National and State laws will be necessary
to protect New York harbor from the dam
age now being done by dumping.
Mr.. MILLER, the Commissioner OF In
ternal Revenue, has been presented with
vase of exquisite tinted glass, which was
manufactured in his State. 1t is probably
two feet high, and is tinted after the
peachblow vase. 1t was presented by
some of the West Virginia doctors VINO
attended the International Medical con-
gress.
THE "Putnam Phalanx" of Hartford,
Conn, arrived in Washington on the 4th.
There are 125 men in the command, ana
accompanying it are about two hundred
guests from Connecticut. Among the
latter are Senator Joseph R. Hawley,
General W. B. Franklin, Samuel Il.
Clements MARX Twain) Hon. 5. A. HUB
bard and Hon. H. T. Sperry.
SOPHUs HESS, a German journalist, who
came to this country and to Davenport,
Ia, in July last, and who had recentiy
gone into business there, hung himself IN
his room at a hotel in that city on the
morning of the 4th. 1t is believed he had
expected a large sum of money from some
source and disappointment and failure TO
get it caused the act. He was forty years
old
The recent death of Muley Hassen, Sui
tan of Morocco, has awakened both France
and Spain to the Importance OF action IN
the matter of territorial acquisition, which
now seems to be ripe for the gathering
THE special report of Commissioner
Okie in regard to the Emigration Commits
sion at New York City is said to recon-.
mend radical change in the methods OF
conducting immigration affairs at Castle
Garden, Secretary Fairchild has the mat
ter under consideration and will act upon
it in a few days.
THE State Department has no lnforma-
tion of the alleged unwillingness OF Sr |
John Macdonald to serve on the hshery |
commission. So far as can be learned IL
is the understanding at the department
that Chamberlain, Macdonald and west
will serve as the British representatives.
A CALL, signed by many leaders OF the
various Protestant denominations, has
been issued for general conference OF all
evangelical churches in the United States,
TO be held under the auspices and direc-
ton of the Evangelical Alliance for the
United States, in Washington, D. C., De-
cember 7, s and 8.
THE New York State convention OF the
National Reform party, which was to
have been held at Syracuse on the 4th,
indefinitely postponed. There was but
one delegate present, Sylvester Douglas
Of Rochester. Edward Evans, the father
Of the movement, was unable to be pres
snt on account of his illness at his home
in Tonawanda.
Nova SCOTIA yachtsmen are going to
build yacht to compete for the Ameri-
cas- cup next year.
lHE was lOJ any lOSOi'SN oAN
entertained at Chicago on the 9th.
Ex-Governor W. B. WAsHBURNE died |
at Springfield, Mass, ON the
1th.
THE American Board of Foreign Mis-
,ions began its session at Springfield,
Mass, on the 9th.
GERMAN Socialists give out the state |
nent that they have abandoned the old
policy of violence in their efforts for
national or public reforms.
THE American Bankers Association
meets at Pittsburgh, Pa, on Wednesday
and Thursday, October y and 13.
MICHAEL DAvITT spoke on Irish affairs
before the Knights of Labor general as
,emby at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 5th'
THE trustees of the Peabody fund for
assisting education in the South, held
their annual meeting in New York on the
5th.
HERR BARTH editor of the Berlin ReichS-
fre1nd has been sentenced to three months
for ascribing the growth Of
the bad tone of parliament to "Prince Bis |
marks false and insulting accusations
against the Liberals"
FIRE broke out on the night of the 4th |
in the lumber district of Menominee, |
Mich, and before it was extinguished,
had burned over 100000 feet of valuable
lumber in the yards and on the docks.
Loss, 800, 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE report sent from Tangier on the I'd
instant that the Sultan of Morocco was
dead is incorrect. A dispatch from that
place on the 9th said his Majesty was
alive, but that death was momentarily ex-
pected
NEGOTIATIONS between Italy and France
for treaty of commerce have been with
out result. The demands of Italy were in
The Rome RefOrrnG argues
that France will be the loser financially in
every way if she refuses the terms of
Italy.
A SENSATION was created in court at
Ennis, Ireland, on the 9th, by the startling
testimony of an informer, who had acted
the part of spy and a murderer.
SIG. CRIsPI admits that his recent visit
10 Bismarck was for the purpose of com
ng to an understanding by which Russian
lggressions can be checked.
A DISPATCH from Cooktown, Australia,
,ays the German gunboat, Adler, convey
ng King Malietoa, had arrived there and
transferred the King aboard the Alba
ross, which sailed, it is supposed, for
5erman New Guinea
THE London Standard correspondent at |
Madrid telegraphs that in an interview
senior Moret, Minister of Foreign Affairs, |